Saving.
55723/47-48
To inve
220.
413 at mea
From the Secretary of State for the Colonies.
To the Officer Administering the Government of
4 March, 1948.
(See 212 B & minute)
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HONG KONG.
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Salaries Commission.
Amid (244)
1. Following are my views on administrative scale and points (c) and (d) of my savingram No.980 of 30th December, 1947.
(i) Administrative Scale basic salary.
The series of £90 increments (equivalent to $120 per mensem) which appear in the proposed scale between 1180 and $1780 are without precedent in the Colonial Service and I consider a scale such as the following preferable:-
Up to $1000 as proposed by Commission, thereafter $1180 x 60 - 1420 x 80 $1900.
i.e.
As will be seen this scale provides an increment equivalent to £135 p.a. after the $1000 point after the ninth year when an officer's family responsibilities and expenses normally begin to in- crease considerably. A big increment at this stage follows the existing Hong Kong scale and is in line with other Colonial scales. It then provides regular increments of £45 p.a. up to $1420 and of £60 p.a. thereafter. It is one year longer than the existing scale and the proposed scale, but one year shorter than the Malayan scale. It preserves the maximum proposed by the Commission.
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